34 Responses to Barcelona draws Arsenal, Tottenham to take on Milan in UCL Round of 16

I don’t know why Arsenal begged for Barca. It’s not like Arsenal did well against them last year. I guess Fabregas is happy because it’s a free try out for him. Evra was right, AFC are a training ground for Barca

Arsenal will advance this year. Barcelona are overrated. Sweet new Qatari kit sponsorship btw. I always though Barca was supposed to stand for something and are “more than a club.” To call them sellouts would be understating it.

(SBI-Before everybody kills Matt for his questionable comments you all should know he’s a hardcore Arsenal fan, so maybe it’s just wishful thinking.)

I’ll agree with the sell out part but overrated?!? Are you on drugs lol. I’m not even a fan but Barca are more complete than they were last yr and they shredded Arsenal then. In addition, Arshavin looks disinterested and Arsenal’s backline might be the worst left in this yrs competition. Arsenal won’t even get a touch of the ball nevertheless.

But it is more than fair to call them sellouts. Barca are supposed to be a left-wing, ethical club. In their 100 plus year history, they’ve never before donned a corporate sponsorship on the front of their kits (despite countless opportunities to do so) which has earned them tons of respect. But nothing indicates a total abandonment of stated values like accepting sponsorship from an organization that according to El Mundo has “given money to extremist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi an advocate of terrorism, wife-beating and anti-Semitism.” I used to tolerate Barca because they stood for something, now they’re just like every other club (and just as bad as the Francophiles at Real Madrid).

You know, Barcelona wouldn’t be in such a financial mess if they’d put a companies name on their jersey a few years ago like everyone else. I wonder if turning down a possible 25 million over the last several years was worth pretending like they were a model of financial responsibility? It’s funny how we all looked at them as the perfect business model and we then find out that they’re 125 Million in debt or so. Makes you wonder how bad off some other teams are!

Spurs win a tough group, probably the second toughest after the RM-Milan group… and of course they draw the second place team from that group. Not fair. Someone in the draw-rigging committee doesn’t like Tottenham.